Feds want the public to agree to more regressive access-to-information rules in ongoing review

The Treasury Board wants to ignore the basic faults with current access, and award itself by cutting away more records and having fewer orders and users.
Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali. A discussion paper on reviewing the Access to Information Act tries to make the case for more delays in the name of efficiency, writes Ken Rubin.

OTTAWA—The Treasury Board access-to-information review discussion paper wants the public and Indigenous groups to tell them by June 15 whether they “like” the one-sided fixes the government favours in “reforming” the broken record management disclosure system.

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